[Texas_Dawg]

Welcome to your kinder, friendlier FedGov. It will no longer send tanks to your home for not giving it your time and money or for holding weird views. It will merely send armed, camouflaged agents to attack and threaten your friends and lay siege to your property.

But supporting such behavior isn't Socialist or wrong in any way, of course. Only Democrats support Socialism and things that are wrong. Everyone knows that. Republicans just want people taxed by a massive collective Leviathan and hate people that don't submit to this utterly anti-capitalist, anti-market, anti-liberty scheme because, well, "that's the American way" or "the law is the law" or some other mindlessness...

WWJD? Why he'd arm himself and others with machine guns and threaten to kill harmless people for not giving his mob their time and money, of course.

[Fido969]

Southern Poverty Law Center.

Why is he "tracking" supposed right-wing groups?

[TexasAg1996]

Get real. This guy's a loon. He and his wife hid nearly $2 million in income so they wouldn't have to pay taxes. They have been sentenced to 5+ years in prison, and they've threatened anyone who tries to come arrest them. They're blaming the whole thing on some Free Mason conspiracy.

These folks are nuts. Trying to argue that the government can't use force to arrest them just increases the likelihood of more nuts arming themselves and saying you can't arrest them to serve the prison time they justly deserve.

[CholeraJoe]

Just shut off the power, water, and internet access. Let them die of thirst and boredom in the dark.

[SamuraiScot]

Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I want to know when we get to do a SWAT raid on that pack of Marxist, anti-American, violence-inciting loons.

[wearearepublic]

Ed Brown has threatened violence against law enforcement, owns weapons, and said he would die defending himself and his property...

Owns weapons, oh my God, will defend his property, good God in heaven, where does this guy think he is, the USA? "Comrade, comrade, comrade, don't you know this is now the USSA?" "Surrender now and we promise you a fair trail..."

[oh8eleven]

Those two standoffs not only left a great many dead people in their wake, but also helped create the militia movement," Potok said.
Create? I don't think so.

[wearearepublic]

Ed Brown has threatened violence against law enforcement, owns weapons, and said he would die defending himself and his property...

Owns weapons, oh my God, will defend his property, good God in heaven, where does this guy think he is, the USA? "Comrade, comrade, comrade, don't you know this is now the USSA?" "Surrender now and we promise you a fair trail..."

"Comrade, Remember, you can trust us..."

[AmericaUnited]

I absolutely hate taxes but those that say that we don't have to pay any are KOOKS! Maybe the kooks can any explain why our Founding Fathers put this little phrase in Article I of the Constitution:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,..

They must have been a bunch of commies. /sarcasm

[SittinYonder]

He pointed to an ongoing standoff between a Texas man and sheriff's deputies that has gone on five years.

What? I've never heard of this.

[oakcon]

OK, come on, how can we say the law is the law for illegal immigrants, but not for people who don’t want to pay their taxes, which last time I checked the federal government had the Constitutional mandate to levy. If you don’t like taxes, write your congressman, but don’t break the law, and then threaten to shoot the police when they come to arrest you, because otherwise you’re a common criminal, and no better than a drug dealer who shoots at police for coming to shut down the grow-op on his property.

[napscoordinator]

Lesson should be that when the Federal Government has some questions, answer them. Don’t go and kill yourself especially like wackos did in Waco!

[hoosierham]

I wish the government could bring itself to use these “massive display of force” and resources against the illegals who are stealing our jobs,schools,hospitals,and nation.

[azhenfud]

Why doesn’t the FedGov take control of the property, rename it with a prison name, and allow the Browns to serve out their sentences in solitary confinement at the new prison?

Everyone wins!